Newscast: John Poindexter, responsible for canceled futures trading market 
in terrorism resigns

31 July 2003
NBC News: Nightly News

BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:

Earlier this week, we reported on a Pentagon plan to start a futures trading 
market in terrorism. It was quickly canceled. Today a senior Pentagon 
official said the architect of that plan will resign. He is John Poindexter, 
a retired rear admiral, who first gained national notoriety in the 
Iran-Contra scandal. He was also responsible for an earlier Pentagon plan, 
also scrapped, that proposed a sweeping system of electronic spying on 
Americans to prevent terrorism attacks.

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